Today’s Wordle was TOADY — a five-letter word meaning to flatter or fawn over someone, or a person who does exactly that. A fitting challenge for a Saturday morning.

I opened with SALET, as usual. The return was modest: A and T both yellow, meaning they’re in the word but not where SALET placed them. That narrowed things to 154 candidates — a respectably sized field to work down from.

Round two brought TRAIN, chosen by the weighted-entropy solver from that pool. T landed green at position 1, A went green at position 3, and everything else was gray. Two letters locked, pattern emerging: T _ A _ _. Still 4 candidates left, but the shape of the word was becoming clear.

THAWY was the solver’s pick for round three — an obscure word, but statistically sound for elimination. It confirmed Y green at position 5, giving us the pattern T _ A _ Y with just one candidate remaining. Round four was inevitable: TOADY, all green, puzzle done. Four guesses, clean solve, no drama. The solver did what it does.